[PATCH] D11994: Doxygen: add build option to use svg instead of png files for graphs

[Sean Silva via llvm-commits]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:

> hans added a comment.
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> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D11994#226133, @silvas wrote:
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> > Just for reference, is the significantly decreased size due to the SVG
> files just being smaller, or compressing better? Given that most browsers
> seem to support SVG nowadays (http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg), it might
> make sense to just hardcode `svg` in the doxygen.cfg.in file (with a
> comment explaining the choice). That avoids surfacing any complexity in
> cmake.
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> The svg files are smaller, but the big reduction comes from better
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> For LLVM, the doxygen with png is 1.6 GB uncompressed and 980 MB
> compressed. With svg, it's 867 MB uncompressed and 65 MB compressed.
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Wow, that is quite dramatically better compressibility in this use case.

-- Sean Silva


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